MUSC 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Miles Davis, Elizete Cardoso, Barry Rogers
13 Dec 2016
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Fusion is used to describe all music situated on the boundary line b/w jazz and pop: the music develops in a fairly straight line. In looking at jazz from a fusion perspective, we find an alternate approach that tracks back and forth b/w jazz and parallel changes in popular culture. In the 1940s, an offshoot of swing called jump music was popularized by bandleader louis. In 1938, he organized the band he eventually named louis jordan and his. Drummer walter martin used tympani in his traps set: his music derived much of its appeal and humour from the everyday life and current trends of southern black culture which he often skewed and always celebrated. R&b"s influence on jazz: r&b was a forerunner of rock and a lateral influence on jazz, alto sax player earl bostic studied harmony and theory before he took jobs playing and writing arrangements for big bands.
